Stones Quotes - Page 27

• I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that's what my dad was into.

  Slash

  Dad, Kids, Thinking

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• I couldn't think of another city in the world that lined its streets with stone leviathans honoring failed rebels against the state.

  Tony Horwitz

  Thinking, Cities, Rebel

  Tony Horwitz (2010). “Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War”, p.247, Vintage

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• We are stone enemies when the bell rings

  Muhammad Ali

  Enemy, Bells, Rings

  Twitter post from Dec 04, 2012

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• Civilisation is only a pretense. In crisis we have become mere apes again, forgetting the rational biped of our pretensions and instead becoming the hairy primate at the mouth of the cave, screeching at the enemy wishing it would go away, fingering the heavy stone we will use the moment it comes close enough

  Orson Scott Card

  Enemy, Going Away, Wish

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• Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.

  Victor Hugo

  Book, Letters, Way

  Victor Hugo (1988). “The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 2”, Signet Classics

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• Mutual tolerance is the stepping stone to mutual respect. A hospitable mind is the key to a neighboring or an alien spirit, looked by dogma and guarded by tradition.

  Ameen Rihani

  Keys, Tolerance, Mind

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• Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.

  Tatchakorn Yeerum

  Block, Improvement, Failing

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• My father had osteomyelitis-his left arm was withered between his elbow and his shoulder ... . But the amputation of a Stone Age man called Leaf, a stoneworker, does not relate to my father at all.

  Jim Crace

  Father, Men, Age

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• What is left of your dream?
  Just the words on your stone.
  A man who learned how to teach
  then forgot how to learn.

  Brian May

  Dream, Men, Teach

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• We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.

  E. O. Wilson

  Technology, Age, Belief

  "The Great Matrix of Being" by William Grassie, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2013.

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• With the groups who asked me to join them - like the Rolling Stones, Spirit, David Bowie, and Blood, Sweat & Tears - I said no right away because I was way too much into my own thing.

  Shuggie Otis

  Blood, Sweat, Tears

  "1970s R&B Man Shuggie Otis Is Ready for His 'Sneak Back'". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. January 21, 2013.

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• Songs came first. I started out in 1965 trying to copy the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Stones, like most kids I knew. I'm still trying. Songs are hard to beat.

  Peter Blegvad

  Song, Kids, Trying

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Stonehenge had an aura but it was also just stone. Then in the sixties, it became a great hedonistic, hippie, druid, rock-n-roll party site. There are amazing pictures of people up on the stones going wild and that's the image I recreated for my model of the project: full access to everyone. I even invented a Stonehenge soccer team that uses spaces between the stones as goals.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Soccer, Team, Hippie

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• The library is a place of mental diversion, learning, and comfort for anyone who has an intellect. I know of no librarian who when asked for food for the mind will offer a stone. What more could anyone ask?

  Piers Anthony

  Mind, Library, Comfort

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• Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.

  Marlene van Niekerk

  Tree, Important, Insects

  Marlene Van Niekerk (2008). “The Way of the Women”, Abacus Software

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• From my fathers point of view, without a thought for self, a true patriot stands up against the stones of condemnation and speaks for those who are given no real voice in the halls of justice or the halls of government.

  Thomas Steinbeck

  Father, Real, Government

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• The Australian film industry has recognised Tropfest as a place to nurture young talent. It's a stepping stone between amateur and professional.

  John Polson

  Talent, Film, Young

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• ....If you are guided toward a faith, use it as a stepping stone to God, not as a barrier between yourself and God's other children or as a tower to hold you aloft from others. If you are not guided toward a faith (or even if you are) seek God in the silence - seek within.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Children, Silence, Towers

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.85, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• As concerning faith we ought to be invincible, and more hard, if it might be, than the adamant stone; but as touching charity, we ought to be soft, and more flexible than the reed or leaf that is shaken with the wind, and ready to yield to everything.

  Martin Luther

  Yield, Wind, Touching

  Martin Luther, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Tischer, Samuel Simon Schmucker (1860). “A Commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians”, p.215

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• I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.

  Kellan Lutz

  Book, Rosetta Stone

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• May your rivers flow without end... down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs... where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you-beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.

  Edward Abbey

  Beautiful, Dream, Wall

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• Remember that all success is based on long-term commitment, faith, discipline, attitude and a few stepping stones along the way.

  Jim Rohn

  Attitude, Commitment, Discipline

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• I had published a co-edited book with Oxford a decade ago, my first book actually. Years later I found myself having lunch with Lori Stone, who was an editor at Oxford at that time. We connected at a conference and over the course of lunch she told me about a wonderful new series she had just developed called Understanding Research.

  Patricia Leavy

  Book, Editors, Oxford

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• Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens,and a soil which, if it is virgin, is but virgin mould, the very dust of nature. What if we cannot read Rome or Greece, Etruria or Carthage, or Egypt or Babylon, on these; are our cliffs bare?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, America, Rocks

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.193, Delphi Classics

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• The majority of the men of the North, and of the South and East and West, are not men of principle. If they vote, they do not sendmen to Congress on errands of humanity; but while their brothers and sisters are being scourged and hung for loving liberty,... it is the mismanagement of wood and iron and stone and gold which concerns them.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Brother, Men, Iron

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